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I know a lot of people in St Louis, and the announcers really do like Yairo Munoz... and I do think he's good, but he's not going to be the starting centerfielder (as Mclaughlin just suggested) or pretty much starter anywhere... but he's going to be a pretty good utility guy that you will try to find 400 plate appearances per season... on a lesser team he is a starter at probably 5 different positions depending on need.

Browsing BBREF, Cody Bellinger is having a hell of a year, but good Lord, he's got 20 fielding runs. 20 fielding runs in 63 games at RF and 1B. I predict that by the end of the year he will have less than 20. Thus, even if he continues his excellent 198 OPS+ hitting, he will have substantially less than double his current 5.6 WAR.

The key to tolerating watching Darvish pitch is to have another game on at the same time. You watch a pitch from Darvish, flip over to the other game, catch a half inning or so, and then back in time for Darvish's next offering.

I think my least favorite Cub at the moment is Descalso. Darvish at least has been good in the past and decent overall lately. Descalso has sucked his whole career and, in his crappy utility-infielderness, is the only player on the roster who reminds me in any way of the bad old days.

A 6-run add-on 9th inning, featuring a Kurt Suzuki Grand Slam, gives the Nationals a 12-1 lead, and brings Trea Turner to the plate for an additional AB, a single short of his 2nd cycle . . . but he pops up. Nationals are willing to risk Trevor Rosenthal (36.00 ERA), back after some mysterious mechanical adjustments, in the bottom of the 9th.

EDIT: A scoreless inning for Rosenthal, aided by an excellent Trea Turner initiated DP, lowering his ERA to 27.00. Perhaps he can yet salvage something of his season.

Browsing BBREF, Cody Bellinger is having a hell of a year, but good Lord, he's got 20 fielding runs. 20 fielding runs in 63 games at RF and 1B. I predict that by the end of the year he will have less than 20. Thus, even if he continues his excellent 198 OPS+ hitting, he will have substantially less than double his current 5.6 WAR.

I recall as a teenager the brief highlighting of major league baseball’s “one millionth run”; officially scored by Bob Watson in 1975.

MLB is soon set to score its two millionth run.
Depending on what is counted: if you include the AA in 1871, MLB will tally its 2,000,000th run later this season; as of today, the total is 1,988,207 per bb-ref, and there should be about 13-14,000 more runs scored through the rest of 2019.
If records start with the NL in 1976, the 2,000,000th run will be scored during 2020. There were about 17,000 runs scored in the five seasons of the AA.

I have no idea if MLB will make a big deal over two million like it did in 1975. Perhaps Bob Watson would try to be involved.